- Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki , who was Apple's software evangelist, is passionate about the idea that products and services reach critical mass 'because mere mortals spread the word for you.' He also has noted that the people who developed the original Macintosh didn't really have any idea of what people would do with the machine-and thus how its users would influence its development. We're wired to create patterns, but that doesn't mean the first patterns are necessarily useful. - Michael Moritz
Michael Moritz (born Cardiff, Wales, 1954) is a venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in the Silicon Valley, and a former member of the board of directors of Google inc. He was educated at Howardian High School, Cardiff before moving on to Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated as a Master of Arts in history. In 1978, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. - Brook Byers
Brook Byers is the brother of Stanford University Professor Tom Byers, and is a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers. He is currently on the Board of Directors of eight companies, most recently joining CardioDX, Genomic Health Incorporated, Five Prime Therapeutics, Pacific Biosciences, Inc. and XDx, Inc. Previously, he served on the Board of Directors of Idec Pharmaceuticals (Chairman), Athena Neurosciences (Chairman), Signal Pharmaceuticals, … - Don Valentine
Donald T. "Don" Valentine is an influential venture capitalist who concentrates mainly on technology companies in the United States. He has been called the "grandfather of Silicon Valley venture capital". The Computer History Museum credited him as playing "a key role in the formation of a number of industries such as semiconductors, personal computers, personal computer software, digital entertainment and networking." - Mike Markkula
Armas Clifford "Mike" Markkula Jr. (born 1942) is a legendary venture capitalist who provided early critical funding for Apple. After his stint there, he continued on to found Echelon Corporation, ACM Aviation, San Jose Jet Center and Rana Creek Habitat Restoration and to endow the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, where he now chairs the Board of Trustees. - David Sze
David joined Greylock in 2000. His areas of focus include: consumer internet, wireless data, broadband, systems management, security, and technology-assisted marketing services. Before coming to Greylock, David was SVP of Product Strategy at Excite and then Excite@Home. As an early employee at Excite, David also held roles as GM of Excite.com and VP of Content and Programming for the Excite Network. Before Excite, he was in product marketing and development at Electronic Arts and Crystal . . . - Timothy C. Draper
Timothy C. Draper Founder, Managing Director Draper Fisher Jurveston Timothy C. Draper is the Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. His original suggestion to use "viral marketing" in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and YahooMail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique to hundreds of businesses. - Bob Kagle
With over 20 years of venture capital investment experience, Bob is a veteran of the venture industry. Prior to Benchmark, Bob spent 12 years as a General Partner with Technology Venture Investors. Before TVI, Bob worked for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where he focused on issues of corporate strategy in industries ranging from retail distribution to high technology manufacturing. - Suhas Patil
Dr. Suhas S. Patil, born 1944 in Jamshedpur,Jharkhand, India, is a Silicon Valley tycoon, venture capitalist and philanthropist. He founded the company Cirrus Logic which is recognized for creating the fabless business model of semiconductor companies. Cirrus Logic brought to fruition VLSI design methodology work Dr. Patil did at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the University of Utah. - John H. N. Fisher
John H. N. Fisher is a venture capitalist, best known for being a managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), with Timothy C. "Tim" Draper, and Steven "Steve" Jurvetson. He is also currently on the boards of companies CMI Marketing, Hands On Mobile (formerly MFORMA), Raydiance, Inc., Selectica, and Visto. He currently lives in San Francisco. - Tim Draper
- Mark Kvamme
Mark Kvamme , Sequoia Capital Mark Kvamme focuses on software and services investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 1999, Mark was Chairman of USWeb/CKS and Chairman and CEO of CKS Group prior to the merger with USWeb. Earlier in his career Mark was a Director of International Marketing for Wyse Technology, the President and CEO of International Solutions, and was a founding member of Apple France. - Bruce Cleveland
Bruce Cleveland focuses on investments in the software and services sector with a focus on analytic applications and Software as a Service (SaaS). Cleveland serves on the Board of Directors of Cape Clear Software, Cloud9 Analytics, Edge Dynamics, Marketo and Right90. Prior to InterWest, Cleveland was one of the original members of the Siebel executive team. - William Quigley
William Quigley joined Clearstone in February 1999 and focuses on Clearstone's communications investments. - Richard D. Harroch
- Ray Lane
Ray Lane is general partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Since joining KPCB in 2000, Ray has sponsored several of the firms investments aimed at improving enterprise productivity. He sits on the boards of privately-held companies Elance, Valdero, Metamatrix, Virsa, Visible Path and two other ventures, and serves on the boards of public companies Quest Software and SeeBeyond Technologies. - James Breyer
Jim is currently on the Board of Directors of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc (WMT), where he is the Lead / Presiding Independent Director, and Chairman of the Strategic Planning and Finance Committee. He also serves on the board of Marvel Entertainment (MVL), RealNetworks (RNWK... - Jeff Clavier
Business Angel and Venture Advisor with over 15 years of experience in the software industry. Most recently General Partner in charge of US operations for RVC, the manager of the Reuters Greenhouse Fund, the Corporate VC arm of Reuters. Before that was involved both as an entrepreneur and senior executive in Product Management and Development, Sales and Marketing, Account Management, Business Development and Strategic Relationships with large financial services clients and partners. . . . - David Feinleib
David invests in Internet-enabled companies at MDV. Prior to MDV, David ran a profitable online advertising business. He founded Centeris, a venture funded company providing interoperability software for mixed Windows and Linux environments. Before Centeris, David was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Ignition Partners. David holds a B.A. from Cornell University, and an MBA from the Stanford. - Navin Chaddha
Navin Chaddha is a 3-time entrepreneur, executive and venture investor with a proven track record in growing startup companies to industry leadership and eventually successful exits. At Gabriel Venture Partners, Navin focuses on investments in the areas of Enterprise Software & Services, Infrastructure Software & Systems, and Business Process Outsourcing. Navin also spearheads Gabriel's international efforts with India. - David Cowan
David joined Bessemer Venture Partners in 1992. He has since made 45 early-stage investments for Bessemer, including 19 that have gone public, and 18 that have been acquired by public companies. The first Forbes Midas List ranked David among the world's top 10 venture investors. - Jon Feiber
Jon joined MDV in 1991 where his primary focus is networking and computing systems investments. In more than 10 years of venture investing he has identified and guided numerous entrepreneurs and played a significant role in growing category-leading companies. Jon launched his career at Amdahl where he served as a Senior Engineer. - Arati Prabhakar
Arati Prabhakar joined U.S. Venture Partners in 2001 and is presently a partner with the firm. USVP is an active early-stage investor in a broad array of IT and healthcare startup companies. Arati's focus is fabless semiconductor and semiconductor manufacturing opportunities. She serves on the boards of Leadis Technology (NASDAQ: LDIS), Kleer, Piviotal Systems, Arradiance, SiBeam, and Kilopass. Arati started her career at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). - Susan Mason
Susan Mason came to ONSET Ventures in 1996 after holding positions in high technology engineering, marketing and business development. Susan most recently led a successful consulting practice, helping Fortune 100 corporations capitalize on emerging markets and technologies. - Kevin Wasserstein
Kevin Wasserstein , Versant Ventures Kevin Wasserstein specializes in investing and building early-stage medical device companies, and is actively involved with several of Versant's portfolio companies and affiliations, including: LipoSonix , NeoGuide Systems , Rox Medical, Second Sight Medica l and The Innovation Factory. - Mr. Ping Li
Ping joined Accel in 2004 and focuses primarily on information technology infrastructure (compute, networking, security and storage), as well as digital media solutions. He currently serves on the Board of Directors at BitTorrent, Mendocino Software, Mochi Media, Mu Security, and YuMe, and he is actively involved in Consentry, Imperva, and Oak Pacific Interactive. Ping was also responsible for Accel’s investment in Reactivity (acquired by Cisco). - Patrick S. Chung
Patrick Chung (New Enterprise Associates) Patrick joined NEA in 2004 and became a Partner in 2007. Patrick focuses on venture growth equity, consumer, Internet, and mobile investments. He is a director of Loopt and Realtime Worlds, and is actively involved with 23andMe, Xoom and the firm's venture growth activities. - Wende Hutton
Wende Hutton joined Canaan Partners in 2004 as a Venture Partner in the healthcare sector focusing on medical devices and biotechnology. While at Canaan, Wende has played an instrumental role in the sales and marketing and recruiting strategies for many healthcare clients including Alsius, Northstar Neuroscience and ReVision Optics. - Tom Stephenson
- Jeffrey Rothschild
Jeff Rothschild has been active in the areas of storage management, system software, and networking since 1979. - Mr. Charles Warden
Charles Warden has been an active medical device investor since 1992. Prior to joining Versant he was a general partner at Schroder Ventures Life Sciences (now SV Life Sciences) where he led SV’s medical device effort. - David Stern
David Stern is a Venture Partner at Clearstone where he focuses on developing early stage investment opportunities at the intersection of consumer technology and media. ... David is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of San Diego School of Law. He sits as an advisor or board member of Clearstone portfolio companies SoonR, Rubicon Project and Spock Networks. - Rob Chandra
Rob S. Chandra has been a member of Mellanox's board of directors since November 2001. Mr. Chandra is a general partner of Bessemer Venture Partners, or Bessemer, a venture capital firm, which he joined in September 2000. Prior to joining Bessemer, Mr. Chandra was a general partner with Commonwealth Capital Ventures, a venture capital firm, from January 1996 to September 2000. - Mark Gorenberg
Mark Gorenberg Partner Hummer Winblad Venture Partners Mark has been a venture capitalist at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners since 1990, and has served as a board member for start-up and public software companies, including AdForce, HomeGrocer, NetDynamics and Scopus Technologies. Currently, he serves as a Director of Cenzic, Infopia, Lathian Systems, ontheFRONTIER, Omniture(NASDAQ: OMTR), Replay Solutions and Tizor Systems. - Bryan D. Stolle
Bryan Stolle, a former entrepreneur, founder and chief executive officer, brings significant company building expertise to MDV. He focuses on and invests in people, ideas, and companies that are trying to solve important business problems using new technologies, business models, or processes. Stolle co-founded MDV-backed Agile Software in March 1995. - Erik Straser
Erik Straser , Director Erik joined MDV in 1998 and specializes in investing in and building energy, materials and software companies. Prior to MDV, Erik worked at Interval Research Corp., a technology incubator funded by Paul Allen, and at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a technical staff member. He also consulted to several seed and early stage venture capital firms. - Nancy Schoendorf
Nancy Schoendorf As a Mohr, Davidow Ventures partner, Nancy specializes in the areas of e-commerce and Internet services. Her investments at MDV have included Actuate, Alphablox, Agile Software, Broadbase, Channelpoint, Datasweep, Freshwater Software, Onvia.com, Peppers & Rogers Group, Requisite Technology, and WetFeet.com. Nancy began her career at Hewlett-Packard, where as a Section Engineering Manager, she developed HP-UX and its real-time extensions. - Ted Schlein
Ted Schlein Member of the Board of Directors Ted Schlein has served as a director since March 2002. Ted Schlein has served as a director since March 2002. Mr. Schlein has served as a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a venture capital firm, since 1996. Mr. Schlein has served as a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a venture capital firm, since 1996. - Sam Jadallah
Sam Jadallah brings extensive operating, management and investing experience to his work with MDV portfolio companies. He holds board seats with Adapt Technologies ; Big Tent ; Done Right! ; InnerWorkings ; and Tiny Pictures . Sam also sits on the board of Medio Systems , which he incubated with Medio founder and former MDV EIR Brian Lent in MDV's office. - Russell Siegelman
As a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Russell invests in consumer and energy related technologies and markets, including software, electronic commerce, Web services, semiconductors, consumer systems, media and telecommunications. He is currently on the boards of Digital Chocolate, Friendster, Lilliputian Systems, Mobilygen, Quorum Systems and RazorGator.
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